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Three top U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials launched a lunchtime charm offensive today as Washington and Brussels attempt to conclude yet another round of their long-running tango over airline-passenger data privacy. The officials’ goal was to convince one hundred or so EU opinion-makers that America can be trusted with Europeans’ particulars. “There’s a lot of oversight in the U.S. — we have privacy embedded into the system,” assured Mary Ellen Callahan, who has the business-card-filling title of chief privacy officer and chief Freedom of Information Act officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At the gathering, organized by the U.S. Mission to the EU and by Security and Defence Agenda, a Brussels think tank, Ms. Callahan noted that she even posts her reviews of DHS data-privacy issues on her website. Read More »

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